How Did The States Of Germany Get Their Names?

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Lower Saxony: www.dw.com/en/...
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Rhine: www.etymonline...
Hessians: www.mountverno...
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Pflaz: en.wikisource....
Saarland: www.nationsonl...
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[@NameExplain]

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[@Sebastian-dc2qg]

Why not CE history??????

[@jon-esmajor2103]

Could you do a video about what the names of some Greek gods mean and how they got them? Would be quite interesting.

[@askneldiven2177]

Turkish provinces, please :) But we have 81 of them, so perhaps the most important/interesting ones... And a colab between you and the guys from overly sarcastic productions would be also totally awesome (they are doing mostly historic stuff at one half and mythology/story writing on the other half) :) And also: great vid, by the way. Always asked myself about the origin of the name bayern

[@cartier2312]

How Did The State Of Portugal Get Their Names? 🇵🇹

[@michaelgrabner8977]

In Saxony are no Alps there is just the "Erzgebirge"..."the saxon alps" is just a literary term but no geographical term..comparable to the literary term "Venice of the North" for Amsterdam..but therefore you wouldn´t call Amsterdam Venice, would you.

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

the east sea is the baltic sea, the western sea is called the north sea, like in english

[@Lots17]

Well the one in the east is called the east sea

[@malte1984]

@@Lots17 That is what he meant

[@peterw9006]

Heresy Mr. Name explain! ^^

[@havedalDK]

Or Ostsee (eastern sea) for the Baltic Sea.

[@franzfanz]

Ironically he explained this in his video on the Baltic nations.

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

1:47 that was William I, germanies first Kaiser. Otto is on the left in this picture, with an withe suit....

[@nielsstockmann7817]

* right

[@NameExplain]

Well don't I feel silly.

[@Samm815]

@@NameExplain Funny cause he looks even more german. Big, fat, big mustache.

[@Ratchet4647]

I was like why is he planning this far left? Wait your cutting out Bismarck! Bismarck is gone! That is Kaiser Wilhelm!

[@tuxedosteve1904]

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki why doesnt it suprise me that a pole wrote this.

[@lewissnow8031]

Um the Alps aren't in saxony...

[@fionafiona1146]

The Saxon "swiss" region has funny hill names.

[@SantomPh]

yup, just the Erzgebirge or Ore Mountains. Sorry Patrick

[@chimefloon-w-4146]

theres a mountain range in saxony called the saxon alps.

[@theultimatefreak666]

@@chimefloon-w-4146 Nein, the closest thing Google finds is a part of the "Elbe Sandstone Mountains" called "Saxon switzerland"

[@chimefloon-w-4146]

@@theultimatefreak666 I literally live in germany xD

[@Bobby-ud4xk]

1:41 Why are you zooming in on Kaiser Wilhelm while talking about Bismarck? Bismarck is the chap in the white uniform to the right. 3:25 There is no "very mixed population" in Schleswig Holstein. Only about 50.000 danes live near the border. 3:30 The baltic sea is called east sea in german and the north sea stays north sea. 6:10 Fun fact: the hanoverian horse is called after the capital of lower saxony. 6:47 Saxony is by no means on the alps. The ore mountains are in saxony. 7:06 as an add-on, anhalt was also a duchy in today's northern saxony anhalt 8:05 little nitpick: german bear isn't "bar" but "bär" (/bɛːɐ̯/). 9:39 palatinate or pfalz comes from an old title used in the HRE. The count palatine (pfalzgraf in german) was the represantative of the emperor in a duchy and his assigned realm was called platinate (or pfalz). During the course of the HRE's history that job gradually disappeared, only surviving in the palatinate. That's why it's called that way.

[@12tanuha21]

Königspfalz, a castle-like palace complex on which emperors and kings held court in the Middle Ages

[@fuffidageld2120]

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki Yes, but that's all in the past. We learned from our mistakes and you shouldn't judge the current Germans for it.

[@thore345]

6:10 Oldenburg, which is part of Lower Saxony, is also well known for it's horses. So it kinda fits

[@free_boiling4502]

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki You can f right off there were many empires that had a smaller population or economy than germany (france or brazil or austria) and it is really just an adaption of the title of Holy Roman Emperor that was abolished not even 70 years prior. So Germany was an Empire from 1000-1918 with just a 70 year break. There were many smaller Kings already in Germany so it couldn't be called Kingdom of Germany because it would have no authority over smaller kingdoms in Germany. That being said the unification of Germany and Annexation of Elsass was a disaster for the German nation as it turned most of Europe hostile against us, upsetting the balance of power. Really, it should have been a free trade confederation with a strong prussia that could defend it and be on par with france or austria in global politics.

[@fuffidageld2120]

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki I don't know the Germans? I am German. And I have many polish friends actually. It's true that Poles are portrayed as criminals sometimes and that's in comedy shows, even my polish friends make fun about that that's black humor. It's like when they portray us Germans as nazis in other countries.

[@barthiddema3594]

East Sea?? how dare you, even in English that is the North Sea

[@theultimatefreak666]

East sea is the Baltic sea North Sea is called nord-see here, which literally translates to North Sea. Yes, he made a mistake

[@ylcard]

@@theultimatefreak666 Not the first mistake, not the last

[@abel5695]

Noordzee

[@ktjthhc1979]

It's even mostly west of Germany

[@AbulArbaIjun]

You are right. Baltic Sea and East Sea are the same. The sea in the west of Schleswig-Holstein ist the North Sea. Or "German Bight". So the map is wrong.

[@thore345]

6:48 There are no Alps in Saxony, just the Ore Mountains (or Ore Mountain Range) 🤔

[@underwaterlaser1687]

Thore Exactly! Also referred to as Saxon Switzerland if I am not mistaken.

[@notCicero]

@@underwaterlaser1687 You are mistaken. Saxon Switzerland is a different mountain range directly to the north of the ore mountains.

[@saulenfischbearn7470]

There is also the Zittauer Gebirge or the Zittauer mountain range

[@michaelgrabner8977]

the term "saxon Switzerland" + "saxon Alps" never was a geographical term it was just a literary term founded by 2 swiss artist Painters Adrian Zingg + Anton Graff who studied nearby in Dresden and the lanscape reminded them to their home Switzerland...that whole thing is comparable to the literary term "Venice of the North" for Amsterdam for instance..but nobody would call Amsterdam officially Venice.

[@fynnparticular]

@@michaelgrabner8977 That may be the true but calling it "the Saxon Switzerland" is still way more common than calling Amsterdam "the Venice of the North" I'd say. As someone from Saxony (Dresden to be exact) who has been there multiple times, I have barely met a single person who didn't call them "the saxon Switzerland"

[@thore345]

3:30 I'm from Lower Saxony and in Germany we call the baltic sea "Ostsee" (meaning east sea) and the other one is the "Nordsee" (north sea).

[@joseantoniolago5857]

I can't remember now but, the people from west Germany, used to call the easterners something like Osis, not sure.

[@thore345]

@@joseantoniolago5857 yes that's right. People in the "new states", so the old DDR, are sometimes called "Ossis" (Easteners). But it's pretty outdated and most people don't like that term

[@calum5975]

We call that sea the North Sea aswell (the sea north of the English Channel, between Britain, the Netherlands and Norway). He made a mistake here.

[@thesenate933]

Here’s a tip: when pronouncing German names or words in general the letter “v” is most often pronounced as “f”. For example Von is pronounced Fon

[@jhutt8002]

That's interesting, because many old people do that here in Finland and I've never understood why. Germany had a lot of influence to Finland as a nation pre 1945.

[@aerospherology2001]

And w as v

[@ccvcharger]

So, Volkswagen should really be pronounced as Folksvagen?

[@thesenate933]

@@ccvcharger Yes!! I can’t imagine how odd that sounds if you were never aware. Try looking up the German “Volkswagen, Das auto” commercial.

[@dimitrijepenjaskovic9374]

10:44 Breathes in B O I

[@dapio009]

I was about to post that

[@studiosnch]

Bavarians, the real BOIIs

[@Dhjaru]

3:38 forgive me if im wrong, im not german, but isn't what you called the east sea the nordsee (north sea) and the baltic sea in german ostsee (east sea)

[@gengarpowah1893]

Yes

[@sirBrouwer]

yes and if you wonder where the South sea is we (the Dutch) have made it in to a lake. (Ijselmeer)

[@mikesatthehelm5115]

In English we call it the North Sea too, only in Scotland would you hear it referred to as the East Sea

[@mikesatthehelm5115]

And the Ostsee in English would be the Baltic Sea

[@granville7]

@@mikesatthehelm5115 really? never heard that before and I'd lived in Edinburgh for some time.

[@raistormrs]

As a German i have to say, haven't laughed this hard in a while over someone spouting this much nonsense in such a short video XD where do you get your information, Bing ? :P oh my, oh my , ridiculous.

[@mikesatthehelm5115]

2:35: There aren’t many countries that changed their borders as much as Germany Poland: Hold my wódka

[@Nikolaj11]

If anything, Germany might be one of the countries that have changed their borders the least, given how young the united nation itself is.

[@ZwaartEntertainment]

@@Nikolaj11 Only if you ignore that the German Confederation and the Holy Roman Empire were also German. Therefore one of the titles of the Holy Roman Emperors was King of Germany.

[@RoderickVI]

@@ZwaartEntertainment The Holy Roman Empire wasn't German, Switzerland, Austria, Alsace, and other non-German states were there too. The Holy Roman Empire included Germany and other Central European countries.

[@syrialak101]

Paramone Gaming I mean... Austria speaks a dialect a German, most of Switzerland speaks a dialect of German and a minority in Alsace speaks a dialect of German. I think it would be more accurate to say that it was _primarily_ German.

[@evzenvarga9707]

@@ZwaartEntertainment you cant really count the HRE because there was also North Italy, Lowland countries and Bohemia which weren't german and all of those states were independent.

[@astridw4737]

I really love your videos and the effort you put into them, especially when pronouncing names from foreign languages But when you pronounced "Pfalz" as "Flaaz" I had to take a really, really deep breath. No offense tho, I learned a lot ^^

[@disingeniousdensemotherfuc9239]

You should know that Germans annex every comment section of a video, if ,,Germany'' is in the title

[@mark-henrikseeling1529]

Sehr gewagt so etwas zu sagen, when you're in annexing distance

[@0topon]

Das wird bestimmt nicht passieren...

[@underwaterlaser1687]

Annoying Dog your name speaks volumes 🐕

[@CrumpetCraig]

*anschluss

[@Meggadezz]

Jup.

[@notCicero]

I usually enjoy your content, but this time i am quite happy that the channel is neither known as "Geography Explain" nor as " Painting Explain"...

[@peterschreiber4978]

East sea is wrong, its called nordsee in german(north see) and the baltic see is the east sea(ostsee)

[@BlackHaloO]

Des is etzala A. richtig und B. falsch fadammte aggsd tadsechlich sogar

[@JordanSmith-si8zn]

In Germany

[@HolyShitNew]

BlackHaloO warum versteh ich das :(

[@namenamename390]

Du hast beim ersten das Deutsche zuerst und das englische in die Klammer geschrieben, beim zweiten das englische zuerst und Deutsch in die Klammer

[@blink-oncefeat.multistan1300]

(Nordsee)*

[@AntoineRx]

Seriously, I love your videos and I've given this one a thumbs-up as well, but you should research more on the pronunciation of the places you mention. I'm not talking about things that are hard for English speakers to pronounce like "Schleswig-Holstein" but about easy things such as "Bär" (pronounced similarly to 'bear' in English, not to "bar" which is what you said) or "Allemagne" (which you pronounced "Allemange" and not "Allemagne" which sounds a bit like "ahl-mah-nyuh"). No hard feelings though, I still found this very interesting :)

[@poluki]

10:06 Baden-Württemberg Not Braden-Würmttemberg

[@Oatmeal_Mann]

😤 Must be where Brads come from.

[@LePudding.]

~1:50 You zoomed in on the Kaiser while talking about Bismarck. Thought I'd let you know.

[@ohh_mega2042]

8:44 well, there also is a region called "East west phalia". Seems to be the home of very undecided people.

[@mario7049]

It's called Ostphallen (Eastphallia basically...?)

[@daisybrain9423]

@@mario7049 No, Eastphalia is more in Saxony-Anhalt. East Westphalia is just the eastern part of Westphalia.

[@SantomPh]

like southern North Carolina and northern South Carolina

[@studiosnch]

@@mario7049 Ostphalia/Ostfalen is an entirely different location from East Westphalia/Ostwestfalen. AKA the place is known for Bielefeld, or "Bielefeld":

[@FukutenshiYoufan]

Today I learned. 😂 😂 😂

[@sehr.geheim]

You dont pronounce it like „Buhr“. The German letter „ä“ is pronounced like an e „e“. So „Bär“ is more or less pronounced like „bear“ in English

[@Oatmeal_Mann]

It's sad that a lot of English speakers learning German don't even bother with Umlauts and other accented vowels. The variation in vowel pronunciation makes the language even more pleasant to listen to in my opinion.

[@johannloronaornelas5193]

Ich glaub so n richtiges Äquivalent für umlaute kannst du im englischen garned findn. Mein vater is ami und da klappt des auch noch nach vielen jahren noned wirklich immer.😂

[@SchmulKrieger]

@@johannloronaornelas5193, die Äquivalente für Umlaute im Englischen wären *child* (tschaild) >. *children* (tschilldren) *ai* > *i* . Or *old* > *elder* > *the eldest* but yes, the modern English speaker is going to lose their own Umlauts. Umlaut aus linguustischer Sicht bedeutet nicht *ä* *ö* *ü* . Ein Umlaut ist die Unlautung, also Veränderung eines Lautes - vorwiegend Vokale - wenn Wörter konjugiert, denkliniert etc. werden. Es gibt auch bei Kausativa (bestimmte Verben) eine Rückunlautung, also von *ä* oder *e* > *a* . Beispiel *hängen* hängte/hing bzw. gehängt/gehangen. Und das *ö* kennt jeder Englischsprecher. Viele Vokale vor *r* werden im Englischen *ö* ausgesprochen. Selbst das *ä* kennen die Amerikaner mehr, als die Engländer. Den einzigen Laut von den drei sogenannten Umlauten hat das Englische nicht und der ist *ü* . Wobei der Brite den zusammen gerne mit dem *ö* spricht. Er sagt nämlich nicht »nou« für »no«, sondern *nöü* .

[@vukvukmanovic696]

In south slavic languages like serbian the word for germany is “nemačka” its from the word “nem” which means mute or deaf because when the serbs first met the germans, they couldnt understand the german language so they thought they were mute or deaf

[@wannabehistorian371]

So basically it’s the same logic as “Bar bar bar” -> “Barbarian”?

[@lukaristic4448]

It's called Nemačka because the German people tend to be much more quiet and keep to themselves

[@suikafan12]

It's a slavic thing

[@tea.lillith]

your pronunciation of "pfalz" had me dead

[@alphaxalex1634]

My favourite German state *PRUSSIA*

[@fermintenava5911]

They're overrated.

[@sheldonj.plankton163]

When I saw *PRUSSIA* Prussian Glory immediately started playing in my head

[@Itisjustasaganow]

@@fermintenava5911 yes but they were the only who started to unifying all German States

[@Wojtek3818_]

German Prussians were imperialists and racists.

[@Wojtek3818_]

@marios gianopoulos Every non German person was treated as a slave by the Prussians. Have you ever heard of Kulturkampf?

[@Vitalis94]

As others already said, Saxony is nowhere near to the Alps, those are the Ore/Erzegebiet. Also, you didn't mention it, but the state called Saxony isn't the original Saxon state, the Saxons had their origin in the north, in modern Lower Saxony (which is called Lower not just to the elevation, but the fact that they sat on the river deltas (compare it to Lower and Upper Nile, for example). Saxons, which sat at modern Lower Saxony, near Angels, Jutes (hence Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain) later conquered the then Slavic territories east of the Elbe and made it their home, hence Saxony. Also while we're on the topic on Slavs, the Mecklemburg wasn't just a name of some random big castle, it was originally known as Veligrad, the capital of the Obodrite tribe. Mecklemburg is just a German calque of the same name. Furthermore, Brandenburg is also a Germanic rendition of Slavic Branibór, which in turn comes from the settlement of Brenna (brьna, swamp) making it the "swampy forest" - "bór/bor" is a forest in some Slavic languages.

[@MrTohawk]

Saxony contains some of the Alps? What did you drink when making that video`?

[@sirBrouwer]

Snaps.

[@HoganTon]

@@sirBrouwer do you want to say "Schnapps"?

[@sirBrouwer]

@@HoganTon no, i want to drink it.

[@Cachalyce]

It's a nickname, used if you talk both about the saxon swiss and ore mountains at the same time to shorten the amount of needed words.

[@donaldmcronald2331]

Well it has a similar name. This montain range is called Saxony Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz) and extends to czechia.

[@ketchup901]

5:35 "Bleemen"? Really? 8:26 "Duzurudorf"

[@steffenebener7332]

Japanese?

[@weorgegashington9689]

Steffen Ebener lol that’s what I thought! “Is he reading Katakana?” Lol

[@floddarelti206]

I get that he doesn't speak german, but please atleast he could make an effort for it sound similarish, I don't expect him to get it exactly right but atleast he could have pronounced every letter and lot change the word 😡

[@AndersGehtsdochauch]

Ich sag nur Schelswig... Oder in nem anderen Video Ellesallewador... hihi

[@innitweird861]

0:49 the French call Germany "allez mange" XD

[@12SPASTIC12]

Don't mind if I do! I'm pretty hungry.

[@majan6267]

The modern state of Saxony is not where the tribe of the Saxons lived, as you arrow suggests. The name of transfered as a part of a title (duke of Saxony) which stripped from the Welphs and transfered to another dynasty in the nowadays state of Saxony

[@anthonyappleyard5688]

I have seen that "Brandenburg" is an alteration of a Slavic name "Brennibor". Most of the recent East Germany was once Slavic :: in Mecklenburg were the Obotrites. The Havolane lived around the river Havol =Havel. The Sprevjane around the river Sprevja = Spree. In the south the Sorbs or Wends. On the Elbe were the Polabs. Berlin was a Rundling (a village of houses built in a circle for defence) of the Sprevjane. Other peoples elsewhere.

[@modmaker7617]

"I really don't think there are many countries have changed their borders as much as Germany has..." Patrick Foote from Name Explain Poland: Germany is an amateur in comparison to me.

[@Makrelacz]

I find interesting that the name for Bavaria comes from the tribe of Boiis as the name for Bohemia also suppose to come from the same source. Boiohaemum - Boiohaemia - Bohemia

[@MrMyzel]

"Seriously, you should go to berlin" Every german:"Nein, bad thought"

[@PauxloE]

3:30 While the names of the former duchies (and then prussian provinces) Schleswig and Holstein might be originally derived from the Schlei and the tribe Holcetae, there are also cities with those names in the respective parts of Schleswig-Holstein. 7:20 Same for Brandenburg - it's not just a "burning castle", there is also a city of this name (one of the oldest in the region, older then Berlin), which later gave the name to a march (which roughly coincides with where the state (+ Berlin) is today). (The rulers of March Brandenburg acquired more territory later, including Prussia, and later renamed their state to "Kingdom of Prussia".) 10:00 "Braden" is a typo, it should be "Baden" (like correctly pronounced). (And again, there is a city of the name "Baden-Baden" in this state.)

[@robertcuminale1212]

There's a city in Pennsylvania just out of Philadelphia called "King Of Prussia". Why? The royal family of the Netherlands the House Of Orange or Nassau. The national anthem "Het Wilhelmus" notes that William William of Orange or Nassau is not Dutch but German. In New York State Orange is a county and Nassau is a county as well as the name of numerous streets. I know that King William was brought in to be the king of Great Britain after the Glorious Revolution overthrew the dynasty of James 1. Was he Dutch or German? His wife Mary was a descendant of King James 1. William also had English ancestors. Where is Nassau in Germany today? And Hanover? Prince Albert had three names. What happened to those places and why was he a prince in all of them?

[@wolfmax7307]

3:33 in Germany we Call the Baltic Sea :“Ostsee“ wich translates to East see, and the East Sea is called :“Nordsee“ euch means North Sea

[@Nikolaj11]

"Lower" in "lower saxony" or "the netherlands" or "the lower nile" don't reference elevation does it? I always learned that it references the location on rivers. Lower Saxony, the lowlands and the lower nile region are all the deltas of major rivers. I suppose both might be correct, sice rivers flow down with the elevation. I just always learned it was the river itself that derived the name, since it was the rivers you traveled on or along.

[@KingHeadbang]

By definition rivers flow into the sea at sealevel. So riverdeltas are always at low elevation.

[@IceGuadian]

Netherlands is called netherlands because it is underwater or almost underwater. Its just low like in lowlands. Like the dutch word nederlanden which means under

[@duwang8499]

No. Lower Saxony is called Lower Saxony because it has a lower elevation.

[@bmilano1580]

The Branden in Brandenburg could also come from the word "Brandung" which can be understood as a breaker of a wave.

[@SantomPh]

that is a bit silly, considering how far inland it is.

[@fermintenava5911]

It actually derives from an old Slavic fortress named Brennaburg /Brendanburg, which was conquered in the 10th century and turned into the episcopal and political center of the Mark Brandenburg, which the state owns its name to.

[@konradmoien4734]

@@fermintenava5911 thank you so much for this information

[@tysonl.taylor-gerstner1558]

German and English are so closely related that "Bär" and "bear" and the Dutch "beer" actually have more or less the same pronunciation. :-) Just as "Bier", "beer" and "bier" are basically pronounced the same. The exception is the R (though regional in the respective countries). Reminds me of when an Irish guy came into a bar in amsterdam and ordered a "berr'. The bartender was oblivious to what he was asking for, and I had to step in. As if there were possibilities other than a "beer." I mean, clearly he wasn't ordering a bear, a burr, a bore or the bar itself. LOL

[@GeographyWorld]

8:12 Cork in Ireland comes from the Irish "Corcaigh" meaning marsh. Anyone else live in a city named after a swamp?

[@adrianatgaming8640]

nope mines named after a harbour

[@CP117]

Not a city, but I live in a Suburb named Lachen (Swiss Dialect) for Wasserlachen (German) = Water pudle in English ;-).

[@rrider3946]

I was born in Marshfield, WI.

[@TheGahta]

Many do, just look at all that cities called washington

[@aeiouaeiou100]

8:25 The well known city of Duduledorf

[@its_mi.]

I heard Dusudedorf😅

[@mikaelvilhjalmsson6068]

Renaming the North Sea to East Sea and relocating the Alps from Bavaria to Saxony is quite a thing to remember. Apart from this, I must say, you certainly put much effort in creating this video, which I really like very much. Most of the information you give is absolutely correct. Keep going!

[@spinnlo1985]

Oh... when explaining 'Baden' you showed a picture of the famous church of Esslingen. A proud wurttembergian city. Seriously, there is a lot of local patriotism between the different parts of Baden-Württemberg going on and this will be oil in their fires. But overall a cool video. I was thinking about the names of the german states just last week. If you ever want to do a sequel of this video, you could explain the names of the German lands that aren't official states, currently; like Swabia, Prussia, Hannover, Friesia, Sudetia or Frankia for example.

[@lewatoaofair2522]

Speaking of Pomeranians, how about discussing the names of dog breeds. You’d be surprised by how many breeds are named after non-national regions. Pomeranian, Dalmatian, Labrador, Chihuahua, etc.

[@Maynard0504]

The picture you show at 10:18 when you mention Baden is actually Esslingen, a part of Stuttgart

[@SithStayer97]

Its not part of Stuttgart its a Kreisstadt

[@GeographyWorld]

I searched Baden into Google and that was one of the first images to appear.

[@SithStayer97]

@@GeographyWorld it's a city that used to be the third largest city in the historic kingdom of Württemberg and a was a free imperial city prior to the Napoleonic Wars wars

[@Maynard0504]

@@SithStayer97 eh I know it as part of Stuttgart, I'm not German I only know this from visiting.

[@abalada]

@@Maynard0504 Esslingen is not a part of Stuttgart. Esslingen is an own city and also district capital of the district Esslingen. Would be also a hot political topic. Esslingen was a free imperial city and for centuries at war with Württemberg and its capital city Stuttgart. Wirtemberg castle - where the name Württemberg derived from - and the other castles around Stuttgart were all destroyed by Esslingen and its allies in various wars. Finally Esslingen lost this war - but was never taken. And hosts e.g. the oldest half timbered houses in Germany.

[@lewatoaofair2522]

I know you stated that you’re focusing on the English version of the names, but I think a bad pronunciation disclaimer would’ve helped, as you still used German terms (and butchered them, as usual). I mean “Breeman,” “Bar” instead of “Bär/Bear” (it’s actually pronounced the same).

[@donaldmcronald2331]

Well I wouldn't blame a none native German speaker for butchering the pronunciation of these names. They're incredibly difficult :D

[@cahdoge]

6:48 Saxony dosen't reach into the Alps, it's the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge in german).

[@CB0408]

Fun fact: Bavaria and Bohemia have the same origin

[@MaestroRigale]

I think you pronounced as if it were spelled , which as far as I know is not a French word.

[@Siegbert85]

1:26 "For the longest time in its history there was no nation called "Germany". Just a collection of Germanic states that had very little in common other than their languages that all sounded somewhat similar." Sorry, that's a gross misrepresenation. Germany was a feudal kingdom that developed out of the Eastern part of the former Frankish Empire and existed for most of the medieval and early modern period. The name for Germans and their country came into formal use by the 11th century. There was very much a concept of German ethnicity and stateship as can be seen in many contemporary documents. It just happened to develop into a a lose confederation that eventually broke apart in the Napoleonic Wars and was later reforged into a modern nation-state by Bismarck.

[@claas901]

1. The sea to the west of Schleswig-Holstein is the North Sea. 2. The mountains in Saxony are not the Alps. The region is called Saxon Switzerland because it's landscape reminded some travellers of the Swiss Alps. But aside from these mistakes, you did a good job researching :)

[@zincero2795]

In english the german "Nordsee" ist called east sea, because it is in the east of England

[@_Ysaw]

The one you zoomed on wasn‘t Otto von Bismarck, that‘s Wilhelm I. The one in white is Bismarck

[@Oatmeal_Mann]

It's funny how similar they look.

[@andyw.3048]

8:45 That's right, the only context I could imagine to use Eastphalia, is for the ostfällische Dialekt (eastphalian dialect)

[@mikkelcoollinan9285]

In Denmark the Baltic sea is called Østersøen (Eastern lake) and the East sea is Vesterhavet (Western sea)

[@mikkelcoollinan9285]

And of course above both we find Nordsøen (North lake) and in the middle Kattegat(cat anus)

[@kalanaherath3076]

*Tribal leader:* We need a new name for our tribe. What do we call it? *Some guy:* I don't know boi! *Tribal chief:* Okay, BOII it is!

[@iammaxhailme]

fun fact, there is a place in upstate New York called "new paltz" because there were a lot of germans who settled there and grew wine grapes

[@lucaventinove3151]

Curious fact: In Italian the country of Germany still retains the name Germania, but the adjective isn't something along the line of "German", instead we use the adjective "tedesco", which clearly comes from the german word thiudisc. There are some adjectives related to "Germania" with the Latin word as a base tho: "germano", which means "foreigner"; "germanico", used to indicate something from ancient Germania (and the HRE).

[@thore345]

Tedesco is also the name of a german-italian Football Manager. He managed FC Schalke 04 a year ago

[@lucaventinove3151]

@@thore345 Clearly the surname was given to the family because of their origin

[@rosbif4960]

Upper and Lower as used in geography typically refers to rivers, with "lower" meaning down-river (closer to the coast), while "upper" means up-river (further inland).

[@tomatosoup44]

Just be a bit more careful with typos, there were quite a few in there... Otherwise, good video!

[@АртурЧугай]

10:42 Yeah BOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[@victorrock1997]

10:05 - there is a small error there, namely that the name of the land is not written well (it might be a typo); the correct form is Baden-Württemberg. Also, the correction pronunciation of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is 'Forpommern' at the end (the 'v' is spelled 'f' in German before a vowel). Otherwise, very interesting video. All the best and keep up the good work! Alles Gute!

[@tuhmater2985]

Another fun fact, as far as I know; in Germany, they don’t use the German word for state, Staat, for their own states, but rather Bundesland (Bundesländer is the plural), which, correct me I’m wrong, translates roughly to federal land or district.

[@strad77]

Sorry to point out some more mistakes, but there's some in reference to Brandenburg. 1. The picture of the Brandenburg Gate is the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. It was built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, which is in the current state of Brandenburg. There is also a Brandenburg Gate in Potsdam, which you referenced right after, but it's not as grand as the Berlin one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate_(Potsdam) 2. Brandenburg might have lakes, tree-lined roads (Alleen), and protected land, but mountains are one thing that it doesn't have. Any high elevations are more like hills with the moniker "Schwiez" (Märkische Schweiz for example).

[@tayfun8975]

Bremen Citizen here ! In the summer i 'm even sometimes swimming right where the picture was taken !

[@johnkilmartin5101]

If you build a wall out of stone and then build a hot enough fire the individual stones will fuse together. This makes the wall quite a bit stronger as well as making it harder to scale.

[@Elvis123xx]

On old english maps you can find the name „German Ocean“ for North See

[@callsigndd9ls897]

Danes call the North Sea Vesterhavet, which means western sea.

[@godspeedhero3671]

Thank you for this amazing video!

[@danieldusenfeed276]

The Name of Brandenburg does not mean Burned Castle. The Burg is interpreted correctly as Castle, however this country is called after its old capital (Brandenburg (an der Havel) apparently), whoms old name was Brennaburg. Translated it would either be Castle in the Swamplands, or its symbol for the saint Brendan, which once lived in this land (particularly in the City of Brandenburg a.d.H). For further Information you nicht read the Wiki article. You may also consider to read it in german, if you are able to, since due to the translation many mistakes are Made.

[@ErklaerMirDieWelt]

A Pfalz is actually not simply a palace. During the medieval Holy Roman Empire, the emperor didn't have a capital in the modern sense. He was a travelling emperor, going from one place to another because his empire was huge and he had to show his face to the people. So he had several castles around the country where he would stay for a couple of months at a time. Such a temporary home for the emperor is called a Pfalz (Palatinate). Of course every emperor had their favorite place. Charlemagne loved Aachen, Maximilian I. loved Nuremberg etc.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

The Headless Horseman in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow was a Hessian.

[@LukasVos]

The term "falen" or "phalen" also describes a tribe of Germanic people - which are named after the area. Parts of Northrine Westfalia and parts of Lower Saxony were divided into Westfalia, Engern and Eastfalia, roundabout 800 AD

[@ErklaerMirDieWelt]

Castle Anhalt is called Anhalt because "ane holt" (modern German: ohne Holz) means "without wood" - it was built entirely out of bricks.

[@calum5975]

That Bremen pronunciation got me. Brrrrriman? Its spelt as it's said. 'Breh-Man'

[@therealdave06]

Minor corrections: • The Baltic Sea is the East Sea in German (Ostsee) and the North Sea is just Nordsee. • The Alps are not in Saxony, they're in Bavaria. But Saxony is hilly with some mountains (Ore Mountains), but not Alpine.

[@andyway0]

3:30 east sea/north sea confusion probably comes from germany calling the baltic sea east sea

[@constantinthing2719]

The Guy in the picture in Minute 1:50 you zoomed in wasn't Otto von Bismarck, he was the guy in the white clothes. ( I know it because he is a ancestor of mine)

[@TheGogeta222]

The Celtic tribe of the Boi and the Germanic tribe of the Bajuwaren Made the biggest impact of the name of Bayern (Bavaria) translated it means something like Warriors from Bohemia and describe the older settlement area of us Some Bavarians cal it even today Boiern (you would write it different but spoken would it sound like that even if the o would sound like a mix between a and o

[@AKAHEIZER]

Nice Video, I really appreciate it!

[@namenamename390]

~7:30 yes, you could translate "Branden" with "burn", however I don't think that's where the name comes from. It might as well be a place just called "Branden", seeing as there's a town called "ficken", which you _could_ translate to "to fuck", but its origins are completely different.

[@RedChaosScrungle]

4:57 For a guy dedicated to names I really would've thought you'd known the proper taxonomic classification for animals, Pomeranians are not a species but a breed of dog, all dogs are canis lupus familiaris, a different species of dog would be like the dingo or canis lupus dingo.

[@gigglysamentz2021]

9:42 It's Pfalz not flats XD

[@flodschiez.3882]

When you said "named after the river saar" you showed the river mosel (which indeed is a far more picturesque river than the saar).

[@flodschiez.3882]

@superaids ach du meine Güte... Du hast recht 😅 hab das dann seit der Grundschule falsch gesagt 😬 danke für die Richtigstellung ☺️

[@callsigndd9ls897]

@@flodschiez.3882 Die Moselschleife bei Bremm sieht ähnlich aus, kann man leicht verwechseln.

[@LaVieDeReine86]

knife slash sword slash dagger... greatest unintentional pun ever.

[@farmrgalga]

Brandenburg, the Burning Castle? Not entirely sure, but usually a name like that means a burned clearing in the woods... it does almost everywhere anyway...

[@JoschiChr]

So when drinking beer with a few bavarians, you are literally cracking open a cold one with the boiis?

[@mart-juhaneiskop3133]

The word "saar" means island in estonian. And there is a river called Saar in Germany. Do they have any islands in there?

[@GeographyWorld]

Sarremaa is one of the islands to the west of Estonia, isn't it?

[@chrisluckas7521]

Märt-Juhan Eiskop not really, the saar is not that wideч

[@HarroKitteh]

Is there an interesting story behind the canadian provinces and territory names?

[@LauchlinM.]

Is there ever. Hopefully Patrick will have a Patron who wants that as well.

[@SimonS44]

I'd say yes, since it's quite a mix of origins: languages of the native peoples of Canada (Ontario, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Nunavut, Yukon), basic geographical terms (Northwest Territories), named by the colonisers after famous people (Prince Edward Island, Alberta, British Columbia and "Labrador"), as well as British place names elsewhere with a 'New' in front (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia) and of course "Newfoundland", which is self-explanatory

[@JonBastian]

I love that this was suggested by Sebastian, for reasons that may be obvious, plus you hit on the home of my ancestors, Baden-Württemberg, and maybe the home of Sebastian's. Hi, possible cousin?

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Why was 8 afraid of 7? Because 7 ate nein

[@edwartvonfectonia4362]

that is bad...

[@edwartvonfectonia4362]

but thanks for a joke!

[@chakravartinarya269]

Do one on Indian states names.

[@sehr.geheim]

is this the truth or are short neckers a thing

[@Oatmeal_Mann]

I'd find that interesting.

[@frederikdietrich8589]

The bloke you're zooming onto in that painting isn't Bismarck. That's the emperor Willhelm I. Bismarck is the dude in the white uniform on the right.

[@Svanberg123]

Talking about Otto von Bismarck, zooms into Kaiser Wilhelm I

[@annkathrinhanamond2982]

This was very interesting, thanks!

[@CKyIe]

Anyone know why the Saxons are so prolific, which area they originally started in and why they migrated around so much? There is even a region of Transylvania populated by Saxons...

[@LoraCoggins]

Things that I never learned in school: Germany has states.

[@sheaballard3022]

If you haven’t done it already, can you make a video about all the “shires” of England?

[@hussey4826]

Wouldn't it get too long? I guess the most famous ones should do just fine

[@hussey4826]

Wouldn't it get too long? I guess the most famous ones should do just fine

[@sheaballard3022]

Lelouch vi Britannia, yeah, maybe so. How many are there?

[@drsnova7313]

You used a picture of Esslingen to stand in for Baden-Baden. Aaaand after searching for Baden-Baden in google, there is indeed that very picture wrongly attributed to that city. But it's quite clearly Esslingen - I lived in that region.

[@svw1999]

3:25 It's the north sea and the baltic sea, but the German name for the baltic sea is the east sea. Therefore the "east sea" on the map is actually the north sea. The reason for the confusion might be that the area around the north sea at the border with the Netherlands is called Ostfriesland (East Frisia) because it's the eastern part of Frisia where the other part lies in the west behind the German-Dutch border. People from this area have a similar culture to the ones living on the Dutch side because only till very recently these borders didn't exist and Frisia was seen as its own region. This is the case with a lot of borders in Germany because of the long-ranging history and federalism. Dutch and German are very similar and the local dialects around the border are sometimes even mutually intelligible. 6:40 Not the Alps, but the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains)

[@kristislocum4609]

I got to go to Hamburg and Berlin last year. This video reminded me how much I miss it and how much more of beautiful Germany there is to see!

[@solehsolehsoleh]

Also, the two Saxony is a result of the moving of the Duchy of Saxony to Protectorate of Saxony. (Thanks to Emperor Tigerstar's video for the info.)